Coffeesforclosers

Let's take a minute and hold a quick funeral for "The Patriot Way". Instead of a unique system of team building and cap management that made your franchise into a machine of selfless cogs that always wins...well that was all Tom Brady too. And the moment he left, Belichick didn't even pretend, he starting shoveling cash into the free agent market while pinning his hopes on a rookie or FA QB. And paying not quite Travis Kelce money for...Jonnu Smith? Yeah. Good luck sir.

As long as they've got Bill, they're only 1 piece away!* *As long as that one piece is the greatest QB ever, who plays like the greatest QB ever for 19 years, in a division with no other franchise QBs, at about 1/3 the salary he would make on the free agent market.

Flores is known as a leader or men, and to have Van Noy chuck him under the bus will get players' attention. Not in a good way either. FA is going to be weird, and I'm thinking that a few players are going make a killing early on. Then once the teams with cap to burn have spent it, all the remaining players will be available at bargain basement rates. I don't see anybody else paying him 10 mil/yr this offseason, so that will probably include Van Noy if they want to kick the tires.

The word after the game was that Vita Vea ripping up KCs offensive interior let their MLBs "see everything". DT play has to improve, and for god sake stop wasting Ed Oliver at zero or 1 technique and get a real nose.

That was fantastic. ***** the Chiefs.

The team needs size and speed. Not full blown "bully ball" type defense or "3 yards and a cloud of dust" type offense, but something. Say a D-Line in the old Jets style, with three guys in the 310-315 range that are interchangeable at the 1, 3 and 5 techs with a floating Pass Rush specialist/blitzer. On offense we need bad, bad men at OG, and a one-cut sledgehammer of an RB that punishes Dime and Nickel looks. Josh, coupled with the sort of running game that says you can put LBs on the field to cover, or you can keep DBs on the field to tackle, would be a nightmare. And if McD could poach Joe D'Alessandris back from Baltimore to coach OL, I'd be alright with that.

I miss having Brandon Spikes as an LB.

Is that Josh's audition photo for One Direction?

It's the level of "analysis" you're fed from your producer scouting box scores a half hour before the show. Pure Hackery. Just like if Allen wins, they'll make a galaxy of excuses for "How the chiefs lost", before they start running SB clips from 30 years ago as introduction Brady's/Roger's inevitable Lombardi.

It's starting to look like Rex Ryan's in charge over there. Hell, I'll take a six figure make-work job if Bill's giving them away.

Tweet this at literally any Bills player, Poyer, Dion Dawkins, Jerry Hughes, any one of them.

Ha! What an #######.

From all the coverage I'm catching, our job is to fly to KC, measure Mahomes for his gold jacket, take our L like a sacrificial lamb, then cheer when Mahomes wins the SB.

There's no such thing as an "*" in the NFL. Push come to shove, the League basically encourages cheating and gamesmanship. Likewise, they will never strip a title or award for any reason. It's just the world they want to live in.

So what does Andy Ngo think of the armed mob that just attacked congress, shouting "Hang Mike Pence"? You know, the ones who tore the american flag down so they could replace it with a Trump 2024 flag? (Let's give WhatAboutism a shot an see how easy it is.)

When Schopp watches a Nick Wright segment, does he feel jealousy? Envy? The terrible sense that somebody took his schtick and is actually getting rich off it?

The Jets never should have let him out of the building, but I'm not exactly complaining about it.

His on air persona is meant entirely for attention. For all we know his man cave is a shrine to the Bills. But before he punches in, he trims his neckbeard, puts on his European Graduate Student costume, and makes his money trolling all day.

If Buffalo wins by any score other than 72-0, he'll make excuses for Lamar and harbaugh. If Buffalo loses in the division round, hell circle back to how the team is a fluke and JA is a fraud. If Buffalo wins it all, we're a fluke that will never repeat and we owe it to better teams that lost gimme games. Do you not see this dudes MO?

Agreed. We've got a "finesse" LB group, which is just fine in the modern NFL. You'd rather have your guys swatting passes than producing TFL these days. But the DL has to keep them clean and develop pressure from the interior.

I'm with all the people who are worried about RB. The Bills seem to value elusiveness, patience, pass-catching ability and vision. I did a little digging and it looks like both RBs are modern takes on Kevin Faulk. Same size, same skill set, but we don't have Dante Scarnecchia's OLines. We might need a big, fast, one-cut Correy Dillon type guy that hits the first piece of daylight he sees like a truck. Moss wants to be that guy and runs like it, but I don't think he's got the power and size to pull it off. The lines are gonna get some attention this offseason thanks to this playoff run.

I never thought in a million years we'd miss Star this much. Not that he's a world-beater, but we need size and power on the interior DL, not Ed Oliver wasting his athleticism playing out of position. As for the running game, Dante Scarnecchia's retired, but why not bring him in as a freelance consultant?

That's crazy. Time is the one thing you can never get back, so I'm glad our guys get those extra hours to prep, rest, and get treatment

It's unbelievable. You've got analytics guys to help take emotional, intuitive decision making out of the equation and give yourself the best chance to win. Players like to win as well, I hear.

Ballgame